1. Zinn, Howard.

Collection of important publications / working-copies from the private library of Howard Zinn; books he privately used for his research and books that helped him in his studies of Anti-War efforts, his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement as well as his general studies of American Political History, his Political Activism and Political Criticism, his research of the United States Government and its national and international policies etc. The collection includes paperbacks and several Hardcover-publications as well. All the books are bearing Howard Zinn’s large ownership-signature to the endpaper, many have markings or/and annotations by Howard Zinn. The Collection includes: 1. Thomas D. Boettcher – Vietnam – The Valor and the Sorrow – From the home front to the front lines in words and pictures. Boston, 1985 / 2. Theodore L. Becker – Political Trials – New York, 1971 [with interesting text-markings and annotations by Howard Zinn in the chapter “The Spiegel Affair”, highlighting the name of Augstein in the “Fallex 62” Exercise – Affair, involving NATO in which “Der Speigel” reported on the mock war and Germany’s involvement through its then Defense Minister: Franz Josef Strauss” (″as defense minister, Strauss dedicated himself to equipping the German army with tactical nuclear weapons and to redefining Germany’s role in NATO” – page 9)] / 3. Michi Weglyn – “Years of Infamy” – The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps – New York, William Morrow and Company, 1976 [with repeated highlightings by Howard Zinn regarding “Tule Lake” and for example on page 239 that the “renunciation law would be restricted to those over seventeen years of age”] – Zinn explores here the American practice of detaining 110000 Japanese citizens in concentration camps, Zinn’s outrage is explained in several heavy textmarkings / 4. Immanuel Wallerstein – “The Modern World-System” – “Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century” – [Studies in Social Discontinuity] New York, 1974 – [With several text-markings, and detailed annotations by Howard Zinn, for example on food & luxires in feudalism etc.] / 5. Phillip Knightley – “The First Casualty” – “From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker” – New York, 1975 – [With some text-markings by Howard Zinn in the chapter on World War One] / 6. Charles Tilly, Louise Tilly and Richard Tilly – “The Rebellious Century (1830-1930” – Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University Press, 1980 – [With interesting markings, for example on Michael Lipsky making “a strong case that the strike movement owed what success it had (which was not enormous) to the fact that dramatic protests activated powerful third parties….” p. 294] / 7. Norman Moss – “Men who play God” – “The Story of the Hydrogen Bomb” – Baltimore, Penguin, 1971 / 8. Kenneth Bock – Human Nature and History – “A Response to Sociobiology” – New York, Columbia University Press, 1980 / 9. E.H.Dance – “History the Betrayer” – “A Study in Bias” – Westort (Connecticut), Greenwood Press, 1975 – [With a signed letter by Stephen van Evera to Howard Zinn, on “Tufts University” – Stationery, who sent him the book by EH Dance and who reflects on Zinn’s idea of “expanding the first part of your “Politics of History”, discussing more deeply the tendency of scholarship to hide in irrelevance, fail to evaluate and leave bitter disputes in the dark from fear of making enemies”] / 10. Edwin Fogelman – “Hiroshima – The Decision to use the A-Bomb” [Heavily marked by Howard Zinn in several chapters, reflecting on his detection of the american government’s policy of justifying the use of the Atomic Bomb, and highlighting especially Brigadier General Leslie Richard Groves’ information on the Manhattan Project: “As time went on, and as we poured more and more money and effort into the project, the government became increasingly committed to the ultimate use of the bomb….” / 11. Gloria Emerson – “Gaza” – “A Year in the Intifada – A Personal Account from an Occupied Land” New York, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991 – Inscribed and signed by the author Gloria Emerson to Howard Zinn / 12. H.G. Wells – “The Outline of History” – “Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind” – Complete in One Volume with all maps, charts, illustrations, diagrams etc. – New York, Garden City Publishing, 1930. / 13. David Hunt – Organizing for Revolution in Vietnam – Study of a Mekong Delta Province [Howard Zinn’s personal working copy with several markings within the text] – April 1974 /

Cambridge / London / and others, South End Press / Cambrigde University Press / Oxford University Press / Mouton & Co. and many others, c. 1966 – 2002. Octavo. c. 4500 pages. Original Hardcover- and Softcover – Volumes. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Amazing and valuable collection of publications from the personal working-library of one of America’s most important and influential social critics. All books with Howard Zinn’s ownership – signature.

2. Chomsky, Noam.

Saggi linguistici. Vol. I: L’Analisi Formale del Linguaggio. / Vol.II: La Grammatica Generativa Trasformazionale / Vol. III: Filosofia del Linguaggio.

Torino, Editore Boringhieri, 1969. 8°. 420, 350, 305 pages. Softcover. Ogni Volume firmato da Noam Chomsky. / Italian Edition. Softcover. Every volume signed by Noam Chomsky. [Biblioteca di cultura scientifica].

3. Chomsky, Noam.

Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar. [SIGNED by Noam Chomsky].

First Edition. The Hague / Paris, Mouton, 1966. 8°. 95 pages. Original Softcover. Binding slightly detached from bookblock !! Otherwise very good ! Signed by Noam Chomsky. [Janua Linguarum – Studia Memoriae Nicolai van Wijk Dedicata – Series Minor 56].

4. [Chomsky, Noam] Allen, J.P.B. / van Buren, Paul.

Chomsky: Selected Readings. [SIGNED by Noam Chomsky].

First Edition. London, Oxford University Press, 1971. 8°. IX, 166 pages. Original Hardcover Edition (Library Edition) / There was also a Paperback Edition but this is the better version. Endpaper and pastedowns with browning/foxing, as usual with this publication. Otherwise this book is in excellent condition ! A few annotations and markings in pencil throughout the text ! Signed on the endpaper by Noam Chomsky. [Language and Language Learning – Edited by Ronald Mackin and Peter Strevens].

5. [Chomsky, Noam] Harman, Gilbert.

On Noam Chomsky – Critical Essays [by Quine, Davidson and many others]. [SIGNED by Noam Chomsky]. Edited by Gilbert Harman.

First Edition. Garden City, Anchor Books, 1974. 8°. 348 pages. Original Softcover. Top edge stained. Minor crease to rear cover. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Noam Chomsky on the endpaper. [Modern Studies in Philosophy – Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (General Editor)].

6. Chomsky, Noam / Halle, Morris / Jakobson, Roman.

Hypothèses. [SIGNED by Chomsky] – Trois entretiens et trois études sur la linguistique et la poétique. Présentations et contributions de Jean Pierre Faye, Jean Paris, Jacques Roubaud, Mitsou Ronat.

First Edition / Premiere Edition. Paris, Éditions Seghers / Laffont, 1972. 8°. 217 pages. Softcover / Broché. Avec la signature de Noam Chomsky. / Original Softcover. Signed by Noam Chomsky.

7. Chomsky, Noam.

The Culture of Terrorism [SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Noam Chomsky].

Boston, South End Press, 1988. Octavo. 269 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. The binding with a dominant crease on the cover and some stronger foxing to the edges but otherwise in very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Noam Chomsky on the endpaper.

8. Chomsky, Noam.

Barriers.

Fourth Printing. Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1993. 8°. 102 pages. Original Softcover. Signed by Noam Chomsky on the endpaper. [Linguistic Inquiry Monograph Series].

9. [Chomsky, Noam] Smith, Neil.

Chomsky – Ideas and Ideals – – [SIGNED by Noam Chomsky] / [With chapters on The anarchist background / The critique of (American) foreign policy / The critique of domestic policy / The critique of media control].

Cambridge, University Press, 2000. 8°. IX, 268 pages. Original Softcover. Signed by Noam Chomsky on the titlepage. With some underlining and one annotation in the chapter “Modularity” [this annotation is surely NOT by Chomsky but by the preowner].

10. [Chomsky, Noam] Rai, Milan.

Chomsky’s Politics – [SIGNED by Noam Chomsky].

London, Verso, 1997. 8°. 225 pages. Original Softcover. With some minor signs of external wear. Signed by Noam Chomsky on the endpaper.